Ernst Dieter Gilles

"For leadership in the area of process control for several decades and,  
in particular,
for his seminal contributions on dynamics and control of chemical and biochemical reactors,
methods for dynamic modelling and simulation and on network theory for process systems."


Short bio:
- Graduated in Electrical Engineering, TH Darmstadt 1960
- Doctorate, TH Darmstadt 1964
- Full Professor and Director of the Institute for System Dynamics and Control
 Engineering at Stuttgart University since 1968
- Founding Director  of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical
 Systems since 1997 (first Max Planck institute in engineering sciences)
- Honorary Professor at Magdeburg University
- Honorary Doctor of Hannover University and  of TU Donezk/Ukraine